I have many users at the place I work, expressing the notion of switching to Ubuntu. Most of them, for whatever weird reason wanting to know if its possible to have refresh added when you right click on the desktop.

The default file browser in Lubuntu is PCManFM. So, if there are some possibilities to "refresh" desktop in Lubuntu, these should act on PCManFM. Thus, looking at the manual page of PCManFM (man pcmanfm), I found that running the following command(s) in terminal (lxterminal), the desktop will refresh

pcmanfm --desktop-off && pcmanfm --desktop --profile lubuntu

So far, so good; there is only left to do somehow to run this command from right click menu from the desktop. This can be done in 3 steps:

Create a new small script, let say refresh.sh, with the following two lines inside:

This is great. Does it only work on 13.04? I just tried it on 12.10, but no go. Any thoughts?
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Mitch♦Sep 13 '13 at 16:53

@Mich As I said, I tested in Lubuntu 13.04. Try to play with pcmanfm --desktop --profile lubuntu, use only pcmanfm --desktop or another profile... After editing /usr/share/lubuntu/openbox/menu.xml file a re-login is required.
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Radu RădeanuSep 13 '13 at 17:03

I hope that you don't mind, but I've added a note about logging out, and back in, because that did it on 12.10. :) +1
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Mitch♦Sep 13 '13 at 17:26